History
Itsukaichi Station opened on 8 December 1899 as a stop on the privately-owned Sanyō Railway between Koi (now Nishi-Hiroshima) and Hatsukaichi, in what is now Saeki Ward, Hiroshima. The Sanyō Railway was nationalised in 1906 and the route became part of the Sanyō Main Line in 1909. The station building was rebuilt in 1964 and converted to a bridge-style structure on 1 November 1986; in 1987 the adjacent Hiroden Itsukaichi Station of the Hiroshima Electric Railway Miyajima Line was relocated alongside, integrating the two operators. Itsukaichi became a JR West station upon Japanese National Railways privatisation on 1 April 1987. ICOCA was introduced in September 2007 and the staffed Midori-no-Madoguchi ticket counter closed in December 2022.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.
Notes
Itsukaichi connects directly with Hiroden's Hiroden-Itsukaichi tram terminus on the Miyajima Line, allowing cross-platform interchange between JR mainline service and the local light-rail network.